Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Microscopic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Microscopic \Mi`cro*scop"ic\, Microscopical \Mi`cro*scop"ic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. microscopique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made
with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.
2. Able to see extremely minute objects.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? --Pope.
3. Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a
microscopic insect.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
microscopic
adj 1: of or relating to or used in microscopy; "microscopic
analysis"; "microscopical examination" [syn: {microscopical}]
2: too small to be seen except under a microscope [syn: {microscopical},
{small}] [ant: {macroscopic}]
3: extremely precise with great attention to details; "examined
it with microscopic care"
4: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
[syn: {infinitesimal}, {minute}]
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